Blow

After leaving the ward, Wen Xiao went to the office to look for Lin Jingyan.

It was a male doctor who opened the door.Lin Jingyan stood by the window with her back to them, facing outside, she seemed to be smoking a cigarette, she quickly pinched it when she heard the movement, and took a sip of the green tea on the table.

"Go out and talk." She put down the water bottle.

The two walked to a corner at the end of the corridor, and there was no one around.

"How many things about me have Chen Anxin mentioned to you?" Lin Jingyan asked.

Wen Xiao only said two words: "Not many."

He didn't like the feeling of being asked for information, and it was the first time he and Lin Jingyan met, and they didn't get along with Chen Anxin for a long time, and their relationship was only a little closer than ordinary classmates, not very close.

The last time they communicated was a week ago. Chen Anxin asked him on WeChat what it was like to repeat the study, and they probably chatted less than five sentences with each other.

"Aren't you unwilling to tell?" Lin Jingyan keenly noticed his defense, "I know you guys never tell the truth to your friend's girlfriend."

Wen Xiao paused, and said frankly, "I'm afraid I'm not as familiar with him as you think."

Lin Jingyan smiled and said affirmatively, "No."

"... If you are familiar, you are familiar, and if you are not familiar, you are not familiar." Wen Xiao simply returned her previous words, "What is not?"

Lin Jingyan was startled.

Wen Xiao owed her a favor, and didn't want to appear too rude, so he deliberately slowed down his tone and explained: "You said this before."

"I know," Lin Jingyan smiled, "but it's different - I told him that you are a person worth making friends with, so his relationship with you will definitely not be bad."

From her words, Wen Xiao got a subtle message: "You let him make friends with me?"

Lin Jingyan asked back, "Can't you?"

Wen Xiao gradually felt a strange feeling in his heart.He recalled Chen Anxin's usual conversation during those days together, and found that Lin Jingyan did occupy a large part of it.

An obvious example, Chen Anxin's daily sentence patterns basically start with "my girlfriend said", "my girlfriend asked me" and so on.The others in the dormitory were tired of listening to him, and complained about him all day long.

Looking at it now, it may not simply be a "show", but more like...

"He has always listened to me," Lin Jingyan continued, "Except for this repetition, he has agreed to everything before. I am doing it for his own good, and he knows it."

... more like a control.

Wen Xiao has no interest in interfering in other people's emotional life, but Lin Jingyan's state made him have a vague resonance.

"You meddling in his social circle?" he asked.

put one's oar in.Lin Jingyan frowned when she heard this word: "Are you trying to say that I'm in charge of him?"

Her tone was obviously displeased. If it were someone else, she might make a joke and change the subject immediately.But Wen Xiao didn't do that, instead he said bluntly: "Yes."

Lin Jingyan's face suddenly became ugly, and she quickly retorted: "What do you know? You don't even know what he was like before you met me."

Wen Xiao didn't answer because he really didn't understand.But no matter what, it was weird for Lin Jingyan to say such words.

"Two years ago, he was still in sports school, and he came to Shanghai to participate in a swimming competition. During the competition, he had a sudden muscle spasm—that is, cramps," Lin Jingyan said slowly, "A friend of mine also suffered from that competition. Go, so I was there. I helped him."

Wen Xiao gave a short "um" to show that he was listening.

Lin Jingyan continued: "At that time, he couldn't do anything except swimming, and he couldn't even speak a word. Moreover, his swimming performance was only average, so he could only be a substitute for their provincial team, and his cultural class performance was even worse. I asked him about his plans for the future, but he didn't know what to do, and there were only two words repeatedly: 'Let's talk'."

"If you can enter the provincial team, your grades should be good." Wen Xiao reminded her.

Lin Jingyan shook her head: "If the results are really good, why can I only be a substitute? Besides, athletes always have to retire. Who can live their whole life by swimming?"

Wen Xiao was silent.

"So I asked him to quit the team and prepare to take the college entrance examination. I tutored him face-to-face," Lin Jingyan said, "I have been preparing for two years, and this is his first year of taking the exam. Being able to pass the undergraduate exam shows that he has potential. It is very likely that tomorrow you will be able to take the second degree, or even the first one - he doesn't know, it is impossible for you not to know the importance of the first degree. Otherwise, why would you choose to drop out?"

Wen Xiao ignored her last question, and only said: "If you retire normally as an athlete, you will have a great chance to walk in the future."

"You have to enter the national team to be recommended to a prestigious school, and there are great restrictions on majors. The most important thing is that he has no chance. Instead of wasting time on this road, it is better to get on the right path as soon as possible. And his social circle, too. Very bad……"

Lin Jingyan talked a lot about Chen Anxin's past.

"Is it appropriate for you to tell me this?" Wen Xiao asked her.After all, these are matters between her and Chen Anxin, or it is Chen Anxin's personal privacy, so she just tells a person she thinks is Chen Anxin's friend?

Even if Wen Xiao and Chen Anxin were indeed friends, Chen Anxin should have told Wen Xiao these words.

But Lin Jingyan said: "It doesn't matter, you are friends, you should know him better and help him more."

"But we are not as close as you think," Wen Xiao repeated, "It's not that we don't want to make friends, but that we get along too short. In a month, how far do you think the two of us can get to know each other?"

After speaking, he was taken aback for a moment.He and Xia Jue...

"Why not for a month?" Lin Jingyan asked, "If what you said is true, then I apologize to you, I shouldn't have disturbed you. It is Chen Anxin who didn't do a good job."

Wen Xiao frowned: "What does it matter to him?"

Lin Jingyan smiled, as if she had caught some evidence, and said to herself, "Look, you are speaking for him. You still say you have a bad relationship?"

Wen Xiao took a deep breath and began to feel irritable.

"...I can't get in touch with him," Lin Jingyan suddenly showed weakness, "WeChat, phone, all contact methods are not acceptable. I really don't know what to do. Fortunately, I met you today. I won't bother you Too much, it's just that we've never had a situation like this, and I want you to ask him why."

"Because you forced him to repeat." Wen Xiao said indifferently.

Lin Jingyan sighed: "I'm doing it for his own good, and I'm also thinking about our future. We can't let him be like before..."

"I can tell that you don't like the way he used to be," Wen Xiao interrupted her, "Then why did you stay with him in the first place?"

Lin Jingyan froze suddenly.

Wen Xiao said expressionlessly: "I owe you a favor, so I will bring it for you. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."

Lin Jingyan was absent-minded for a long time before she responded softly.

Wen Xiao left with complicated thoughts and returned to Wen Rushi's ward.Wen Rushi took a nap for a while and woke up, chatting with a grandmother in the next bed, that grandmother liked Wen Rushi very much, and kept saying that she would introduce someone to Wen Rushi.

Wen Xiao walked over and called out, "Sister."

"Are you back?" Wen Rushi looked at him, "Is the matter over?"

Wen Xiao nodded.

"Oh, this is your younger brother?" Grandma looked at Wen Xiao carefully, "He's so handsome, are you in a relationship?"

Wen Xiao is not good at dealing with old people.Wen Ru replied half-jokingly for him: "Talk, I'm still in high school, let's talk. Puppy love, disobedient."

Grandma showed a smile of "Oh, that's really promising".

Wen Xiao felt a little uncomfortable, and said in a low voice, "I'm an adult."

"Okay, okay, I know you've grown up," Wen Rushi said with a smile, "Come and sit down."

Wen Xiao sat down on the chair beside the hospital bed, took out his mobile phone, and was about to send a message to Chen Anxin, but the top message attracted his attention.

Xia Jue: Are you not at school?Where have you been?

The message was sent at 51:[-] noon.It was more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the English test was about to start.

Wen Xiao tried to reply: Don't worry, I'll go home and get something, and I'll be back soon.

Xia Jue actually replied in seconds: You are not taking the exam?

Afraid that he would be distracted, Wen Xiao said, "Take a test."Come back before the exam.

Xia Jue replied: Then I will wait for you at the gate of your class.

...Maybe I can't hide it anymore.

Wen Xiao thought for a while, then typed: Did you bring your phone to the classroom?Not afraid of confiscation?

Xia Jue: You want to change the subject again...

Wen Xiao was found out, and continued: I have always wanted to ask you, why is there a homonym difference between your WeChat name and your real name?

The same goes for Xia Jue. Knowing that he was changing the subject, she couldn't help but answer him: This looks more handsome, and it's easy to read.I've grown up, I don't want people to call me Xiaoyu anymore, it's a bit childish.

Wen Xiao said: No, it's very cute.

Xia Jue sent a string of ellipses, and Wen Xiao felt that he must be blushing.

About a minute later, Xia Jue responded: You know how to coax me.

——He changed the word "jue" in his WeChat name to his real name "Jue".

Wen Xiao teased him: I blamed me for not coaxing you before, but now I coax you, and blame me for coaxing you.Why are you so hard to serve?

Xia Jue: ...Then stop serving me.

Wen Xiao typed: No way.Just you as a wife, who else will I serve if I don’t serve you?

The moment he clicked send, he could already imagine Xia Jue's ears were red, biting his lip and secretly looking at him.

Xia Jue: ...

Xia Jue: I won't tell you anymore!

Wen Xiao took advantage of the situation and replied, "Okay, let's stop talking, and prepare for the exam well."

After posting, he couldn't help smiling.

"You're chatting with Xia Jue?" Wen Rushi noticed his expression and knew it.

Wen Xiao said: "Well. The monthly exams are taking place in the past two days, so I didn't tell him about your illness."

Wen Rushi understood what he meant: "It should. You're fine, but he must cherish the opportunity of every monthly exam—how is his grade now? Has he improved?"

"I passed the second line last month," Wen Xiao said briskly, "I can at least improve by [-] points this time."

"So fast?" Wen Ru was surprised.

Wen Xiao smiled, like sunlight piercing through a gap in a dense forest."I teach," he said.

Seeing his smile at the moment, Wen Xiao was a little dazed, and after a while couldn't help but sigh: "Xiaoxiao, you have really changed...that's great."

Wen Xiao didn't ask what had changed, and Wen Ru didn't need to explain, they had a tacit understanding and could understand each other's subtext.

Afterwards, Wen Xiao sent a message to Chen Anxin, explaining how he accidentally ran into Lin Jingyan when he was visiting relatives in the hospital, and attached what Lin Jingyan wanted him to tell.

Chen Anxin didn't reply right away, probably because she didn't have her mobile phone with her.Wen Xiao looked through his circle of friends. He used to refresh his screen every day, but recently he hasn't updated it for a long time.

Wen Xiao sighed inaudibly.

He continued to chat and check with Wen Rushi.Until five o'clock in the afternoon, the school's monthly exam was over. Five minutes later, Xia Jue sent two messages in succession.

Xia Jue: You missed the exam.

Xia Jue: Wen Xiao, where did you go?Why are you lying to me?

The author has something to say: Wen Xiao saw an extreme version of himself in Lin Jingyan, so he will have some empathy.

After all, he is not Lin Jingyan, and Xiao Xia is not Chen Anxin.Xiaowen and Xiaoxia are together, both of them will become better selves~